Jinbei Charged By Dying Ace To Look After Luffy

Status: pending · Technique: dialogue-from-dead-character · chekhov-explicit

The seed

Why this matters

A dialogue-from-dead-character hook that founds the Jinbei–Luffy relationship on obligation, feeding the Straw Hat Recruitment Pattern (allies bound to Luffy by debt/oath before formally joining). The full protector payoff (Fish-Man Island and beyond) is forward — this seed stays pending. Cross-link Jinbei, Ace, Luffy.